Word: ghoulish
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...popartists' work, called "Environment U.S.A.," was selected by Brandeis University's William Seitz and bankrolled by the Smithsonian; it is easily the biggest crowd pleaser of the lot, although only one American, Jasper Johns, won a minor ($2,220) award. The U.S. exhibit, with its garish colors, ghoulish assemblages and grotesque figures, comes across as an eerie, lunar, angst-filled anti-advertisement for the Great Society. It also shows what dozens of artists representing other nations at Sao Paulo have begun to imitate...
CULDESAC, an inventive exercise in macabre slapstick by Polish Director Roman Polanski, looks like Part 2 of a projected trilogy of terror that began with Repulsion. This time around, Polanski plays his ghoulish games on a desolate North Sea island whose sole inhabitants are a half-mad old fool (Donald Pleasence), his hot-blooded young wife (Francoise Dorleac) and two unexpected nighttime visitors...
...they were not much more so than the ones made by 22,000 Transport Workers Union machinsts employed by Pan Am and American Airlines. Under pressure to outdo the rival I.A.M. machinists, the T.W.U. has since July deadlocked contract negotiations with obstinate calls for a 30% wage hike and ghoulish threats of what may happen if their demands are not met. Said one T.W.U. official last week...
...down. Major Barbara is a funny show and the Loeb production loses none of that humor. There's the menagerie of Lady Britomart, Undershaft's estranged wife. Her son Stephen (Charles Degelman) cavills, while her son-in-law-to-be (William Docken) snivels, while Roger Zim as a ghoulish, confused butler looks...
...packed monstrosities that sit out front all day to the night folk who appear in her back room after hours. First, there is Howard again, hideously scarred. Then her dream lover materializes. He looks more like a floorwalker than a night walker, but he whisks her off to a ghoulish wedding witnessed by store dummies...